Al-Masudi was of which ethnicity?
Arab
Persian
Turkish
Egyptian
Answer
Arab Al-Masudi was a Persian-Arab historian who wrote extensively on the geography, history, and culture of the Islamic world. He was born in Baghdad in the 9th century and traveled widely throughout the Islamic world, gathering information for his writings. Al-Masudi's most famous work is the Muruj al-Dhahab wa Ma'adin al-Jawhar, which is an encyclopedic work of history and geography.
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